That fact was apparently lost on many Americans, who took to their Twitter feeds in blind rage following Davuluri's to decry her as an Un-American Muslim terrorist — three things she just so happens to not be at all.

Earlier tonight, Miss New York, Nina Davuluri, an Indian-American woman born in Syracuse, was…
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Much has been said about the knee-jerk reactions of the xenophobic multitude to any non-Norman-Rockwell contestant winning, well, anything, but, as always, Stephen Colbert gets the last word.

In case you missed last night's show, Colbert summed up the argument against Davuluri in a single sentence: "705 people [who tweeted the phrase "Miss America Terrorist"] saw a woman in a bikini and thought, 'Muslim Extremist.'"